Story | 20 Feb, 2023
Annual shorebird monitoring in the Gulf of Mottama
The intertidal mud flats of the Gulf of Mottama, situated in southern Myanmar, are wintering grounds for 150,000-200,000 migratory shorebirds, including the critically endangered Spoon-billed sandpipers (Calidris pygmaea…
Story | 31 Jan, 2023
Judging complex societal change processes is made easier with new guidelines to assess contributions. An important contribution claim begins with the question, “How and why has the intervention made a difference, or not?”
Grey literature | 2022
Contribution Assessment Methodological Guidelines
Methods to evaluate policy processes and outcomes are especially underdeveloped, yet are needed to optimise the influence of research on policy for addressing complex issues. This report from IUCN delineates a set of easy to understand steps to conduct a Contribution Analysis.
Annual reports | 2018
Assessing IUCN’s Contribution To Uganda's Forest Landscape Restoration Processes
Uganda's forest landscapes are precious in so many ways, but the country continues to lose its important forest assets at an unprecedented rate. In recent years, forest landscape restoration has been in place to help reverse that trend. So how is it going?
News | 07 Dec, 2022
France’s invisible land commons under threat
CEESP News: by Gretchen Walters & Olivier Hymas, University of Lausanne
Thousands of French commons contribute to social and environmental outcomes, yet many have been proposed to be abolished without consultation. A group of legal experts, researchers, rights-holders and…
Story | 06 Dec, 2022
The Restoration Initiative: A Myanmar story
Restoration meets the needs of local forest communities in Myanmar
Story | 02 Dec, 2022
From 29 November to 3 December, the beneficiary associations of the "TransCap" programme are meeting in Morocco to foster cooperation on climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. TransCap, funded by the General Directorate for Cooperation of the Balearic Islands and coordinated…
Story | 05 Dec, 2022
Six country teams gathered in October 2022 to reflect on the implementation and achievements of Ecosystem-based adaptation on their respective mountain systems and communities…
Story | 08 Nov, 2022
In transboundary mountain ecosystems across Nepal, Bhutan, Peru, Colombia, Kenya, and Uganda, IUCN and partners have worked from 2017 - 2022 to implement ecosystem-based adaptation approaches to increase climate resilience and reduce vulnerabilities of local communities and the ecosystems they…